Animation can enhance learner engagement, but who has the time to
learn to animate? Storyline 2 has great illustrated characters with many poses
and expressions, yet when you need your character to do something not in its lineup,
what are you to do?

In this session, you will learn how to use Storyline 2 illustrated
characters and Microsoft PowerPoint to edit the characters to create evocative
animatic-type animations. You will learn how, when used in combination with an
effective story, you can enhance your learners’ engagement by illustrating your
content with more targeted, styled characters and smoother animation. To
enhance the experience of this session, create a five-minute story or script
that introduces two characters and includes some dialogue.

In this session,
you will learn:

How to export illustrated characters
from Storyline 2

How to import characters into
PowerPoint

How to edit the characters’ features,
expressions, poses, hair, and clothing

How to import the characters back into
Storyline or another development tool

Michael Laudone

Sr. Instructional Designer

Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago

Michael Laudone is a senior instructional designer with the Federal Reserve
Bank of Chicago. He has been doing instructional design, development, and
delivery for the past 25 years and in the past 10 has concentrated on
eLearning delivery. At the Fed, Michael brought in more interesting and
learner-focused courseware by using instructionally significant interactions,
stories, and relevant graphics and animations. He has overhauled a
systemwide program that provided technical training on standard
applications used at all 12 Federal Reserve Banks with tech-tip videos; each
episode deals with a challenge that is met with the standard applications.